[1] - Needed for Fn + F2 operation to enable/disable wireless. [2] - An experimental driver for the Ralink 2860 chipset is available at the ralink_drivers.git repository. See also thistopic at the FreeBSD foums.

General notes (please READ!)

Some users found that enabling powerd causes sudden reboots and problems with the SD card and/or external devices. The problem may lie in acpi_throttle(4). Please don't enable powerd or disable acpi_throttle in your loader.conf on the 701. If you disable acpi_throttle, powerd is useless because the Eee PC 701 CPU has no Enhanced Speedstep support.

SD card reader problems (70x model only)

Some users found that using the eeemon(4) kernel driver and enabling "high voltage" (sysctl dev.eeemon.0.voltage=1) makes some SD/SDHC cards functional. The error/success on this behavior depends on the card itself.

Another thing to do if you get write errors or your system hangs when writing to the SD/SDHC card is to try changing the BIOS setting of "OS Installation" to "Start". The following should change in your dmesg:

da0: 40.000MB/s transfers

to:

da0: 1.000MB/s transfers

This may not make the problem go away entirely, but makes it less problematic.

901

A customized kernel configuration EEE_HEAD is available, this should result in this dmesg-v-20081216-eee901.txt dmesg output. This system is cross-compiled on another host with environment settings TARGET=TARGET_ARCH=i386 and make.conf variable CPUTYPE?=prescott